Attorney Bio

Kevin Liles is an injury lawyer who has represented injured clients for many years in various safety related litigation throughout the nation. He has secured settlements and verdicts for his clients in litigation involving workplace negligence, product liability, tractor trailer and 18 wheeler collisions, commercial business, and more. In New Mexico and Texas, he of often asked to speak about the best ways to help victims of heavy truck collisions. Mr. Liles is a forceful litigator who gets quick results and maximizes recoveries.

Mr. Liles was raised in Abilene in western Texas and attended Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, earning his BS degree in 1993. He majored in mechanical and electrical engineering, marketing, and business. Mr. Liles attended Baylor Law School in Waco, Texas and earned his JD there in 1997. While at Baylor Law School, Mr. Liles served as the Editor-In-Chief of the Baylor Law Review, earning several scholarly and advocacy honors.

After graduating from law school, Mr. Liles worked in Houston, Texas with Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P., a global firm where he represented both defense and plaintiff clients in several litigation dockets.

Mr. Liles then united with Harris & Watts, P.C. in 2001, utilizing his forceful advocacy talents to represent only plaintiffs in cases involving oilfield negligence and automotive product liability. With Mr. Liles’ help, the firm continued to grow and expand, becoming recognized across the US as a top plaintiffs’ litigation firm.

Mr. Liles has served many times as the lead trial counsel in complicated commercial cases and several personal injury and auto product liability cases involving workplace injuries in oilfields, crashes involving work trucks, 18 wheeler collisions, and assorted defective products, earning considerable settlements and verdicts throughout the country.

Mr. Liles devotes 100% of his practice to litigation and was legally board certified for personal injury trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in 2005.

Bar Admissions

Arizona – 2004

New Mexico – 2017

Texas – 1997

U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit

U.S. District Court District of Arizona

U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas

U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court Western District of Texas

U.S. Supreme Court

Representative Experience

In 2013, Mr. Liles obtained an $18.75 million verdict in Nueces County, Texas, the highest wrongful death dram shop case in the county. His clients were parents who sued a topless bar for over-serving a customer and then bouncing him from the bar, after which he drunkenly drove the wrong way on a highway, hitting and killing an 18-year-old boy.

In 2016, Mr. Liles secured Dallas County’s largest wrongful death trucking verdict in history. He obtained a $37.9 million verdict against O’Reilly Auto Enterprises.

In 2017, Mr. Liles obtained a $7 million trucking verdict in New Mexico on a zero dollar offer. He had previously resolved the case against a different defendant for a settlement that stayed confidential but was above the later $7 million verdict.

He was the trial counsel in a road construction and commercial motor vehicle case involving an accident that resulted in four fatalies. Over the first week of trial, the case was concluded successfully with one defendant and with the second defendant the next week. Neither of them accepted responsibility and offered zero dollars until just a week before the trial. The case was confidentially settled for a seven figure amount.

He represents clients in cases of injury or death arising from any unsafe working conditions in gas pipeline and oilfield locations and facilities, as well as cases involving oilfield work vehicles like belly dumps, drilling rigs, frac trucks, low boys, sand trucks, and water trucks.

He has also represented clients who have suffered spinal cord injuries against international tire and automobile manufacturers for defective or unsafe products which caused injuries. He had successfully settled these cases for seven and eight figure amounts and has experience in the unique issues that clients with such disabilities face.

Additionally, Mr. Liles represents victims of brain injuries and catastrophic burn injuries and assists them and their families with the unique challenges and treatments that come with these disabilities and injuries.

Mr. Liles has litigated various cases involving company vehicles, product liability, and tractor trailers that settled successfully in the same year of the collisions for awards over $5 million.

Corpus Christi Under 40 Award in 2007 for community contributions and professional excellence

Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation in 2015, nomination only offered to the top .3% of attorneys in Texas

Litigator Award in 2014 and 2015 awarded by the Trial Lawyers Board of Regents for being among the top 1% of lawyers based on exceptional achievement in litigation of Automobile Defects, Liquor Liability, Personal Injury, Products Liability, Truck Accident, and Wrongful Death cases

Member of the State Bar of Texas’ Pro Bono College, years 2004 to 2006, 2010, and 2014 to 2015, which acknowledges attorneys who exceed the State Bar’s pro bono goal

Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year in 2005 and 2006 awarded by the Corpus Christi Bar Association

Texas Super Lawyer and Rising Star in 2005 and 2007 through 2017

Top 100 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyers in 2017, awarded by the National Trial Lawyers

Professional Memberships and Associations

Texas Trial Lawyers Association

Member

State Bar of Texas

New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association

Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum

Life Member

Million Dollar Advocates Forum

Life Member

Corpus Christi Young Lawyers Association

President 2003 through 2004

Outstanding Young Lawyer of the year in 2005 and 2006

Corpus Christi Bar Association

Bar Association of Arizona

Attorneys Information Exchange Group

Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America

American Association for Justice

Presentations and Publications

Fire Protection in Frontal Impacts: Using Ford’s Defense Against Them for the Attorneys Information Exchange Group

Corpus Christi Under 40 Award in 2007 for community contributions and professional excellence

Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation in 2015, nomination only offered to the top .3% of attorneys in Texas

Litigator Award in 2014 and 2015 awarded by the Trial Lawyers Board of Regents for being among the top 1% of lawyers based on exceptional achievement in litigation of Automobile Defects, Liquor Liability, Personal Injury, Products Liability, Truck Accident, and Wrongful Death cases

Member of the State Bar of Texas' Pro Bono College, years 2004 to 2006, 2010, and 2014 to 2015, which acknowledges attorneys who exceed the State Bar's pro bono goal

Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year in 2005 and 2006 awarded by the Corpus Christi Bar Association

Texas Super Lawyer and Rising Star in 2005 and 2007 through 2017

Top 100 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyers in 2017, awarded by the National Trial Lawyers